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1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations |
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nat Americans |
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gdr Women |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The meeting of grain and fire -- Acorn bread : Grinding only looks easy -- Rosquetes de azucar : America, Europe, Africa -- Plumb cakes : Wheat and corn, like it or not -- Hoecake : Who ate what, and who decided that -- Raison cake : The eye was well deceived, but to the taste it was rather sour -- White mountain cake : Poverty and opulence -- Jelly roll : The modernizing South -- Chiffon pie : Civil rights and sameness -- Pastel de tres leches : The cutting edge of Southern baking. |
| Summary |
"While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of Southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions-Indigenous American, European, and African-collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know as the Southern baking tradition"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Rebecca Sharpless is professor of history at Texas Christian University. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Baking -- Southern States -- History.
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Cooking, American -- Southern style.
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Food habits -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
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Cultural fusion -- Southern States -- History.
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Southern States -- Social life and customs -- History.
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COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States |
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Baking. |
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Cooking, American -- Southern style. |
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Cultural fusion. |
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Food habits -- Social aspects. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Southern States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse. distributor.
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| Added Title |
History of baking in the American South |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sharpless, Rebecca. Grain and fire. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022] 9781469668369 (DLC) 2021052597 (OCoLC)1266896405 |
| ISBN |
9781469668499 electronic book |
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1469668491 electronic book |
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9781469668376 electronic book |
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1469668378 electronic book |
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9781469668369 hardcover |
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146966836X hardcover |
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